'Fairytale' censored - is nothing sacred??????

[gentlegreen]

ah but fairies are Christmassy. Faggots aren't.

gathering winter fuuuuuuelllll ?

Some faggots earlier

 

[lunatrick]

and yet the word 'nigga' is fine on R1?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Political correctness gone mad I tell you. I'm going to get out my green pen and write to someone important.

Why do the real wierdoes use green ink?

In the army, the use of green ink is restricted to major and above.

 

[Ms T]

Radio Two is playing it practically every hour at the moment.

 

[sojourner]

Remember the days when an airtime ban automatically meant a number 1? That couldn't be shown on top of the pops?


Eeee, THEY were the days

 

[hammym@hotmail.]

FUCK 'EM I love faggots,have just introduced the missus to some faggots I have been enjoying for years!And she enjoyed them to!!
Though they could of done with a little more sauce, or is that gravy.
Oh the crap they spend our licence fee on!!!!!

 

[bluestreak]

Why do the real wierdoes use green ink?

In the army, the use of green ink is restricted to major and above.

from wiki

In journalism, Green Ink is (humorously) supposedly the major identifying characteristic of written correspondence from self-aggrandising pedants, cranks, charlatans and eccentrics.
Although no psychiatric equivalence with the preceding terms should be inferred, it is also used to refer to unusable correspondence originating with readers who are mentally ill.
Regardless of the colour of ink used, it is common to refer to correspondence of any kind (including email and webpages) as being in "green ink", so long as it broadly fits the following identifying characteristics:

• Stridency
• Impertinence
• Unreasonableness
• Unrealism
• Fancifulness
• Obsessiveness

Common comorbid characteristics include IRRELEVANT CAPITALISATION, overuse of exclamation marks!!!!!!!! and veiled threats or warnings directed at the recipient.
Religious mania is a frequent characteristic of green ink communication.
Writers and correspondents who fit this general profile are referred to as Green Inkers or as members of the Green Ink Brigade (GIB).
Contents

[hide]

• 1 Reported encounters with the GIB
• 2 Possible origins
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

//
[edit] Reported encounters with the GIB

• "THE "green ink brigade" is well-known to editors. It consists of people who send in copies of the paper, covered in scribblings and rantings. Every mistake, every contentious point, is ringed or underlined, more often than not in green ink."

Their letters go on for page after page in a tidal wave of green bile. I once had a letter from a green ink regular, signed Paul the Apostle, telling me I was "the spawn of the horned devil and a wicked whore from hell". I am, in fact, the spawn of an electrician and a postlady from Middlesbrough and I've thus far kept Paul the Apostle's letter from them for fear of causing a domestic incident. Don't ask me why these people choose green ink. They just do." (Unnamed columnist, The Northern Echo, 2006) [1]

• "Anyone who makes a living from broadcasting will get more than his share of GIB letters. Anyone who dares to write a book about the English language had better change his address if he’s not prepared to be swamped. Yes, it can be profoundly irritating. A Green Inker will always spot the mistake. So will many other readers but the GI will write to tell you about it. And if any GIs are reading, I know that the first edition of my last book awarded a distinguished academic the Noble Prize. What I don’t know is how it slipped past me, my editor, the proof reader and on into infinity. But it did. Thank you for pointing it out — but please, no more letters."

(John Humphrys, 2006) [2]

[edit] Possible origins

"Green Inkers" are (in popular imagination) frequently obsessed with supposed conspiracies and plots, so it may be no coincidence that Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first chief of MI6, would only write memoranda and communcations in green ink - a tradition that has been continued by all subsequent placeholders [3]
In harmony with the frequent megalomania exhibited by green inkers, green ink was also the way in which the guardian of an underage Roman Emperor would sign his charge's correspondences. [4].

[edit] See also

• Color psychology
• Crackpot
• Crank (person)
• Obsessive
• Rant

 

[hammym@hotmail.]

I used to love Faggots. Hvaen't had one in years

The originals are better!

 

[sojourner]

bluey - would a little link to wiki not have been a bit better?


I bet YOU write in green ink, don't you?

 

[skyscraper101]

Brains Faggots. I can't wait to get back to the UK. I love em. Especialy with garden peas and mashed potato.

mmm

 

[gnoriac]

Why do the real wierdoes use green ink?

In the army, the use of green ink is restricted to major and above.

Are you inviting us to draw a conclusion there?

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

If they're going to censor 'faggot', they may as well get rid of the 'fairy' in the title, too!

lol - im using that

 

[Chester Copperpot]

and yet the word 'nigga' is fine on R1?

No it's not. It's been bleeped out for years.

 

[kained&able]

Nigga def isn't allowed on radio1. One extra might get away with it but i doubt it.

Umm people should stop saying but a faggot is a metaball, yes it is but its not whats meant and we all know it and besides that shrinking from the issue.

How is two mates(or lovers in the context of the song) slagging each other off descriminating or insulting an entire race or sexuality. Its fucking silly.

As for them censoring you slut on junk or whatever the line is thats even sillier since when have you been able to say slut?


dave

 

[salem]

dear sir i wish to complane. faggot is a fine english xpreshun and if the qweers dont like it they can fuck of back to the sovet union

yrs,

arthur bigot, romford

Why mock though? I don't think it takes a bigot to see that this is a case of oversensivity, no doubt by people who have no affiliation with the group they are trying to 'protect'. Most of the replies to this thread are proof of this.

The people who instantly rubbish any story which hints at 'PCGM' are just as bad as those who rubbish any story which hints at diversity IMHO.

 

[ovaltina]

It's grim innit. But at least it made me look up the lyrics. I never knew what Shane M was saying until today. Makes me appreciate the song more.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Why mock though? I don't think it takes a bigot to see that this is a case of oversensivity, no doubt by people who have no affiliation with the group they are trying to 'protect'. Most of the replies to this thread are proof of this.

The people who instantly rubbish any story which hints at PGGM are just as bad as those who rubbish any story which hints at diversity IMHO.

What's PGGM?

 

[kyser_soze]

A typo of 'PCGM' - Political Correctness Gone Mad

 

[salem]

A typo of 'PCGM' - Political Correctness Gone Mad

Bugger, not even a typo - just a slow brain

 

[QueenOfGoths]

A typo of 'PCGM' - Political Correctness Gone Mad

Ahh. Never knew there had been an initialisation of that particular phrase.

 

[xenon]

it's an argument between 2 not especially well educated peple of relatively low social standing. It's the language of that demographic. Venacular. Radio 1 is clearly excelling itself as the putrid pile of kack that it is.

Course the rest of the media love stories like this. Doesn't require much work. Instant phone in. "Pc gawn maaad!"

 

[Gromit]

I've emailed Radio One appluding them for their decison.

I've also requested that Dick and Dom's (S&M innit!) names be bleeped out in future along with fellow Radio One DJ Sarah Cocks.

 

[kyser_soze]

Can't we just bleep Cox out full stop? With a rusty nail?

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I have enjoyed being outraged all day thanks to this story. And amused my work colleagues by suggesting they edit the 'fairy'.

 

[kained&able]

speaking of outraghe i wonder what peter thatchells view on this is.

Not presuming anything but it would be nice to hear some homo action groups views on it.


dave

 

[Sasaferrato]

Are you inviting us to draw a conclusion there?

That may well be the case.

 

[gentlegreen]

Tom Robinson was on at the end of World at One ... said it was harmless, but he was much more bothered by an Amy Winehouse song where she asks if a man is gay ....

 

[frogwoman]

That song always get played on Radio 1 though, it's been around for years, and why now rather than at any other time?

 

[DotCommunist]

So, remove some lines from the only good christmas tune. Radio One confirms once again that shoud be named Radio Fail

 

[salem]

speaking of outraghe i wonder what peter thatchells view on this is.

Didn't think anyone would be offended according to the mirror